Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 15:58:44 +0000 From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: My planned work on networking stack Message-ID: <20040302155844.GP4561@saboteur.dek.spc.org> In-Reply-To: <p0600200ebc6a27773c31@[10.0.1.3]> References: <4043B6BA.B847F081@freebsd.org> <200403011507.52238.wes@softweyr.com> <20040302031625.GA4061@scylla.towardex.com> <20040302042957.GH3841@saboteur.dek.spc.org> <20040302082625.GE22985@cell.sick.ru> <p0600200ebc6a27773c31@[10.0.1.3]>
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On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 01:07:58PM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: [..] > His only issue with using exclusively PC equipment for handling > routing is all those strange WAN protocols and cards for which > hardware cards are rarely available beyond vendors like cisco or > Juniper. That's why he's going pure Ethernet protocols/hardware > throughout all his networks, including his upstream feeds, so that he > can dump all that expensive ancient legacy routing hardware. That won't necessarily scale... but YMMV... > If anything, I'd be inclined to look towards his work for OpenBSD > and see if that could be imported into FreeBSD (and maybe improved, > with contributions given back to him), rather than mess around with > crap like zebra or quagga. The last time I looked at his code it looked pretty much like a straight lift from the MRTD tree. This was a few months ago... and this was brief... > Oh, and it would be nice if someone somewhere started thinking > about a mesh routing implementation for *BSD, either AODV or > something else. //depot/user/bms/aodv/aodvd/... BMS
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